Mendiola_brutal

Mendiola_brutal, originally uploaded by pitikbulag.

Aug. 19 Mendiola Rally: brutality and media harassment.

From Tony

032809_P1000343, originally uploaded by Tony Remington.

A snap from my friend Tony Remington during our photo outreach to Sitio Magdalena in Manila.A great photographer and friend, Tony is the real Film and digital renaissance man.

"Quiapo, Metro-Manila. Photographers Brennen whom i only recently met (LX3 man), and legendary Philippine photojournalist, my old buddy, that scumbag Luis Liwanag.

Just kidding about the scumbag part, it's really great to see Luis again. he's always great to talk too. he's the real deal."

Black Nazarene V.2009

The Mendiola Narratives

The Cats in the Cradle

My child arrived just the other day
He came to the world in the usual way
But there were planes to catch and bills to pay
He learned to walk while I was away
And he was talkin' 'fore I knew it, and as he grew
He'd say "I'm gonna be like you dad
You know I'm gonna be like you"

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon
When you comin' home dad?
I don't know when, but we'll get together then son
You know we'll have a good time then

My son turned ten just the other day
He said, "Thanks for the ball, Dad, come on let's play
Can you teach me to throw", I said "Not today
I got a lot to do", he said, "That's ok"
And he walked away but his smile never dimmed
And said, "I'm gonna be like him, yeah
You know I'm gonna be like him"

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon
When you comin' home son?
I don't know when, but we'll get together then son
You know we'll have a good time then

Well, he came home from college just the other day
So much like a man I just had to say
"Son, I'm proud of you, can you sit for a while?"
He shook his head and said with a smile
"What I'd really like, Dad, is to borrow the car keys
See you later, can I have them please?"

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon
When you comin' home son?
I don't know when, but we'll get together then son
You know we'll have a good time then

I've long since retired, my son's moved away
I called him up just the other day
I said, "I'd like to see you if you don't mind"
He said, "I'd love to, Dad, if I can find the time
You see my new job's a hassle and kids have the flu
But it's sure nice talking to you, Dad
It's been sure nice talking to you"

And as I hung up the phone it occurred to me
He'd grown up just like me
My boy was just like me

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon
When you comin' home son?
I don't know when, but we'll get together then son
You know we'll have a good time then

Help me find this guy....

I am writing this sentence. Well, actually, I'm typing it. Not very efficiently I might add. I never really formally learned to type. I usually use just 3 fingers on each hand, it feels a bit awkward, I can feel a little struggle, but it works for me. Yep... So... why am I talking about this nonsense? Simple, I thought I'd take a little exercise in writing, er... typing. It's been ages since I've done this, or at least, wanted to do this. To be honest, I am forcing myself a bit, pushing in some effort where my body refuses to naturally flow it. This is a filler sentence.

I used to be passionate about blogging, I'd take the time to remember all the interesting points of my day and try to talk about it as wittily as possible. So yeah I mentioned passion, well passion's gone friends. Not just for blogging, or writing, or anything for that matter. I've lost passion for everything. I've become... a zombie if you will, wake up, get on the computer, do mindless things, kill time. Do I enjoy it? Yes, to an extent, it entertains me, keeps me "happy". Hell, I don't even go to school, or work, or do anything productive, I just leech off of my hardworking mother. She doesn't even know that I haven't been to school in about a year. I'm a great liar like that. She'll eventually find out the truth, I'll probably get kicked out of my house and I would most likely just kill myself. "ZOMG WHY!?!?", you ask? Well, the easy answer is, I've given up on life, on living, on all this good stuff. I just drift on day to day without purpose, yep that's what I'm doing. You see, people usually have this thing that gets them through life, I think it was called ambition... Or was it dreams... No that's kinda homo, let's just call it... a metaphorical fire under their ass. Mine went out a while ago, so here I am sitting in a pile of ashes rotting. Ooooh, I just deleted a couple sentences that were supposed to be here. Hehe, they were garbage anyway, a forced attempt at being witty/smart/funny you know, the things the ladies like. Man, I've failed, I've gotten bored of typing. I thought that maybe if I tried hard enough, I could get a little something going on and just throw all my garbage issues out in the form of digital letters and be cured of my lack of everything. Bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla.

I found this rant in a blog on livejournal written on 5/27/2008. Waht an emotional pierce of work...it reveals a lot about what this guy is going through... I've been there, and i've done these things... I feel a lot like him..I hope he eventually goes home to find himself..

This is a piece written by somebody who is lost...He lives with his mom somewhere in California. Please help me find him...he can still learn a lot...from us from his brotyher and his little sister....

He is my long-lost son...Lyle If you know him , pls. tell him we are here.

Tomorrow is the end of the world

I remember that when i was young and I used read comic books, i always see an illustration of soomsdat pr and we should all be scared.....but if you see signs That read " Even Good Guys Do BAD THINGS" then it could be worse

Luis by Harold Buck Pago

just this image

The woman with the R2M

Aperture 2.1

I have been very excited to use Apple's aperture for a long time since hearing about it, but when i tried the version 1.5, I was turned off.The learning curve was too much for me and i found the interface not too intuitive. When i used Adobe's Lightroom for the first time...I got hooked. The workflow was perfect for me, and I found it very easy to import images from my cf card, rate my photos, and quickly batch edit the images for exporting to my target sizes and burning it for submission to my clients.Color corrections and global enhancements was a breeze. The Aperture program just lay there on my hard disk like a fat lazy something...when the 2,0,1 came out I installed the 30-day demo version and renamed my licensed version. I started enjoying it more because it adopted my favorite tool, Lightroom's vignette, highlight recovery, etc.

When I stumbled on the featured video of Nat Geo's Jim Richardson explaining his workflow using Aperture... i was really amazed! I didn't realize that it was the tool I'll ever need in doing photo stories. i will be using it more from now on.. especially since the 2.1 version came pre-installed with a dodge and burn" plugin...Awesome!!

A food chain

A cat patiently waits for a share of the food that a street kid had foraged from the trash.

the fields

When I was a kid, i always looked forward to the afternoons when after school, my neighbors would play "agawan base", hide and seek, camping and all konds of games inside a vacant lot in front of our house in Quezon City.There we hid among the talahib... ran after hundreds of dragonflies, and made small huts where we lit-up bonfires and exchanged tall tales with the elders. The vacant lot was a paradise filled with Santol, guava,Avocado, star apple, Aratilis and other fruit-bearing trees. It was really fun while it lasted.We soon grew up and the other kids slowly vanished as more and more of the neighbors started moving elsewhere.That was yesterday
Today, I spent a few days in Iloilo city on a documentary assignment, I came across this kids playing near the sea. I learned that every afternoon, they would play in this patch of land by the sea, a virtual fishpond for the community,,, sadly in a few months , if conditions permit, a huge coal-fired power plant would take it's place... right beside the existing Diesel power plant in the far background. Soon after the kids happy memories of their childhood will be wiped out by dark clouds of dirty coal exhausts and toxic heavy metal by-products of the future.

"So real"

Images of the daily life of the people living in Happy Lnd in Tondo Manila and a patch of land called "Ulingan" where they make charcoal from scrap wood salvaged from the adjacent garbage dump. The landscape may be surreal but the faces and the smiles are real.

South Cotabato: Hot Days, cold nights

I spent a few days in North and South Cotabato chasing KC Concepcion, US Ambassador Kenney, and the MILF brothers.Being a predominantly muslim province, I literally spent cold nights inside my hotel hugging my cameras for company. The days were really hot and humid . I ate a lot of Deep-fried Dalag with rice and Tolang dalag for breakfast and fresh kinilaw na isda, seaweeds, shrimp and sometimes fat crabs for lunch.The MILF politburo on the other hand never failed to bathe us in piping-hot native brewed coffee even under that raging hot sun.

The WIld Wild West

About two decades ago, these children playing without a care in the world wouldn't have been possible. These kids live in a mining community on Mt. Diwalwal which in the not too distant pasr was populated by denizens of the underworld, lost commands, and anybody who in some way have lost their will to live among us and chose to search for gold elsewhere. In the 1980's a gold rush in Mt. Diwalwal gave birth to a town where guns and gold ruled. Gun duels were everyday fare and the death toll kept rising. It was a survival of the fittest.
Today , there is peace and women and children need not live in fear.There is a schoolhouse. a health center, and an economy built on gold revenues.
The only real problem is with iver a 100,000 population and without a real eco-government policy, Mt.Diwalwal might soon become an ecological nightmare.

Quiapo Sunday

Fresh vegetables for a salad, DVD's for an afternoon couch potato session. I found "I 'm Not There".A really good movie about and not about Bob Dylan's life and works.

Lumix in the streets

At first I was so frustrated because my timing was off...the shutter took a longer time to capture the images as I walked the streets of Quiapo. After a while...the world around me seemed to slow down as I reversed the process. I remembered the movie "Matrix" as I consciously weaved in and out of the hustle and bustle that was Quiapo. As my sweat began to break so did my fear. This camera is fantastic!!!! Very stealthy because it makes no shutter sound at all, the body is all black and the lens has a HUGE opening at f2.0-2.4 and with the 28-90 mm Leica Vario-Summicron lens...the DMC LC-1 is perfect for street photography.hehehehe I found a jewel at last. But of course...the little M4 on my other shoulder is still the king!

A Slice of Life

Christmas Past

I ususally hate when Christmas comes... for so many reasons that I can't pin down. But if you really want to feel the spirit, look around you and give...anything. Giving makes us see those subtle signs of happiness.

The RF gang

Rangefinder cameras: a perfect companion for shooting the streets.
(L-R) Leica 1G (loaned from Angie De Silva, Leica m4-2, Fed-3 , Fed-2, Zorki-4K

WHERE IS THE LINE?

Row four images #01

Langistik Man: A protester attempts to put a comic twist to the already twisted economics of skyrocketing prices of fossil fuel.


NO TO OIL PRICE HIKE: The militant women join the protest



DEEP "TOTS" .This young child learns the realities of life from the protesting public utility drivers.

Coming Soon: ROW 4 Images

It's been quite a while since I have last posted new images on this blog directly.I got bitten by the multiply fever and then the facebook apps. Nothing beats this blog, it's quiet and has an air of calmness to it.
I noticed that when you make some small adjustments in multiply and facebook...the whole world is roused from sleep.

The good news is, I have gone back to school to learn about photojournalism.

One score and seven years ago...I was hurled into photojournalism because I needed to work and be the breadwinner of the family.Photography was the only other skill I know next to drawing editorial cartoons that I felt would be a good dayjob. I (was) am really passionate and obsessed with photography and I felt that I can really visualize and present my ideas better with photographic images than I can with my drawings. Not that my drawing sucks but I am not really the better artist at home...my younger sister is.

It was the heyday of picture agencies and photojournalism...The Marcos regime was on the very edge of collapse.One breaking news led to another in a vicious whirlpool which sucked my tender years,until it spewed me out like a projectile into the present.

My kids have grown up to be emerging artists too and I realize that I have nothing concrete and structured to teach them...only experiential knowledge.

Looking back, I know I have learned the ropes of photojournalism out in the streets, infron and behind the picketlines, up on the hills, and deep in the urban ghettoes. It's time to go back to school, wipeout my pre-conceived notions, and start with a clean slate.

Photojournalism, it's responsibilities and moral obligations have evolved a lot. I am positive that I will relearn it with got a timely scholarship from the Asian Center for Journalism which works closely with the World Press Photo.

In the next postings, you will see the output of a year of my studies via online and on-campus learning sessions.

Hopefully, this won't be a view from the fourth row.

Mere propagenda or truth?

Is this truth or mere Propaganda?

Link

inside the dressing room:Amazing Beauties 2007

details will follow....

Bureau of Internal Refugees

This are images taken during a photo visi with Tudla Productions to the railroad tracks where demolitions and relocations are ongoing. The people living in small houses alongside the railroad tracks are being driven away to various relocation centers outside the city to find themselves trekking back to the city on account of poor living conditions, lack of jobs and services. These people may be squatters but they it is disheartening to know that they are part of the growing number of Internal refugees in our homeland,

These images are part of the documentation using a Fuji GW670 medium-format rangefinder camera and 220 size Porta film and scanned

Southern Exposure

For a lttle less than two weeks, I went on a trip with a Video Journalist Aaron Goodman, s canadian based in Bangkok. I was fixing for him. This means I have to be the assistant cameraman, gadder, PA, researcher,translator ,etc.I don't remember the last time O did this sort of thing. It was hard work for me coz' we had to work 8-15 hours a day and in the evenings, I spent a lot of time brainstorming the next day's shoot. There was no time to shoot stills for myself. Most importantly though,,, I had witnessed a lot of real things, Mothers losing their beloved husbands by extra-judicial killing, very old farmers with bent-backs toiling their landm peaceful villagers tacing the impending land-grabbing of their titled lands. human rights workers teaching the masses their basic human rights, daughters and children facing up to the loss and grief of losing their fathers and grandparents whoo were summarily killed, simple folk and sof being communists, intelligence agents swarmiaround us while we were doing doc were also the sights of dally life. Sights of hope and optimism. Here are just simple snippets of life in Southern Tagalog region as witnessed them.

Macapagal Tenement Building in Tondo

Aura and Chris, a couple of really good artists give the dilapidated and condemned building a fresh coat of hope and vigor by painting the whole central area of the buildings 4th floor with heroes abd other characters. They were helped by supportive young residents.

Found:

A dear friend, fellow photographer Alan Dejecacion from San Francisco found this old image he took of me in the mid 90's when we went to see "The great John Lee Hooker" (as far as i can recall) at Yoshi's blues bar in Oakland.Taken with a Leica M6.This image really gives me the blues.

Marines off to war

Once in a while, there is an outbreak of war. Sometimes it's just beyond our doorsteps and we have to send our brother, our friend, or even ourselves in harm's way to fight our brothers, friends or maybe even our own selves.

Walking home from the barber shop

Walking home from the barber and still reeling from the frustration of the crappy hair cut I got, this scene washed all my anger away . I need to have a cool shower too.

Jeepboy

Working boy

Healers

These people are fixtures of Quiapo and it's sub-culture

Quiapo Hula

Standing out in the crowd, this young woman patiently waits fro her fortune and destiny to be foretold by the Fortune tellers of Quiapo at night

Honky tonk woman

it's so dark inside...but the lighting was so irresistible that I took a shot the focus was off but what the heck!! I like the psychedelic pinks and violets plus the orange.

Young Korean exposurists at the 2007 SONA

The lightbearer

A team shoot while winding down after the SONA of PGMA..We had nothing else to do so we turned on our slave strobes and started jumping around Commonwealth avenue at dusk.John Javellana,Gil Nartea, Jes Aznar,Akira Liwanag, Buck Pago were all there.(photo by Jes Aznar)

SONA preview

Quiapo Fridays

It's a Friday and I spent the whole day shooting an assignment for my agency.. before I knew it, the nightlife began to unfold as I was walking the streets of Quiapo. I've long missed doing this stuff . I think this starts something

Makati Avenue on an early morning

FHM 100 sexiest

FHM GANGSTA article

LINK to my photos on FHM

The Leica Freedom Train

Cross posting

I don't know that Multiply is such fun.I have not bee updating this site for a long time because initially I found it hard to maintain. This is just a test.

Turbulent 80's

On the Edge

Boys play in the streets, oblivious to the vehicular traffic.

Compilation of images

A simple homelife

My wife venus staring at a blank screen (balancing the blank budget ;-)


Akira ironing his school uniform (night vision mode.hehehe)


My daughter Isis pondering on whether to help with the baking or not.

Malate kids at nightfall

taken with Tri-X,Leica+jupiter-3,Parodinal developer

Father proxy

Siobhan with "Sexy" the dog (jupiter-3/Lucky 100)

My niece Siobhan taken with a new Jupiter-3 lens I am testing

Fed-2 FSU rangefinder camera

Open Source: The Fed-2 RF camera and Linux...you can't go wrong

just texting

wanderin

hanging out

Grandpa and grandson

Fathers and Daughters

clean fun

Anti- election fraud protesters

PICC 2007: M4-2, J8

Recto Ave.

CIgarette Vendor 2007:m4-2, J12

Sunday's Best

Pantranco QC- Leica, Jupiter-8, Lucky film.
I was about to go up the footbridge..in the corner of my eye, a solitary figure in a long white dress was lurking in the shadows. I Pre-focused my lens ,shot a frame, and moved on.

Just when everybody else has gone Dig....

Just when almost everybody has gone digital... here I am dabbling with BW film. Well I am trying out this new FSU (former Soviet Union) lens. It's a Jupiter-8 50 mm f2.0 lens. It is a little soft at the largest opening but it peoduces a certain character that I like. If not for the end of the Cold war, It would not have landed into my hands. I will push the envelope of these lenses.

J8

Baclaran

camera porn

Floridablanca, Pampanga: Election Day

Slow count

You've got to Watch this

Akira goes to film school

Akira (right) goes to a film making workshop at The UP Film Institute (photos by Raquel Fausto)

Flying men

Adrenalin pumped men

COOL NORTH

SF STREET

Film holdouts

by Buck

Rangefinder Day

RFilipinas members in a restaurant photo by Buck

Working Man's Dayoff

Labor Day 2007

May Day 2007: Anti Riot Police wait under the moonlight

Remedios Circle Mom

Children of Remedios

Remedios Ciecle

Remedios Training Center

It's a Bird

Remedios Circle

Malate Shootout

First image during the RFP walkabout at Malate Manila.
(Jupiter-12 100 asa )

A beach stalker prowling White beach in Puerto Galera

ER

North-bound on a bus

The kids (Jupiter-12 lens)

EarthDay Jam 2007

Kitchie Nadal@ EarthDay Jam 2007

Nina @ EarthDay Jam 2007

Orange & Lemons@ EarthDay Jam 2007

UP Dharma Down@ Earthday Jam 2007

Bloomfields@EarthDay Jam

just photographs

Tondo, Divisoria, Baseco 2007

A new home for the Jupiter-12

I got a Russian Jupiter-12 35mm f 2.8 LTM from a nice young lady who in turn bought it from respected photographer, Lester Lesesma who himself is a rangefinder kind of guy. The lens which is 43 years old yields decent images. I tried it on EPA photog Mike Alquinto above which was mounted on a Leica M4-2 anf shot at 1/125 f 2.8 and Fuji NPH film ISO 400. The lens is a keeper

RF PILIPINAS

Gari B, practices loading film into a reel as he watches a movie about photography


strange paraphernalia


Members partake food amidst waiting film tanks


Jay signals start of the film processing workshop


jay agitates film tank in cold water buffer


Rain, wam and Kat seems to be in trance watching Jay


more agitation



I was shocked to read an article in the April 2007 issue of The Digital Journalist saying that the next quake in photography will be an intensity 10. Apparently, there is a movement going on in the newspaper circuit in the U.S. slowly easing out digital still cameras in the arsenal of photojournalists in the field and replacing them with HD video cameras .See article here

Not to be alarmed, a group of photography purists elsewhere in the world remains unfazed. In fact their dedication to traditional film photography is proof that despite everyday breakthroughs in digital photography, rangefinder cameras and film will continue to survive the painful revolution.

The Sights and Shapes of Cutud

Oenitents: Cutud San Fernando Pampanga

Good Friday

A wannabee penitent in Cutud Pampanga

Cutud's Mt. Calvary

Maundy Thursday

A lenten window,SEXMOAN PAMPANGA

Retracing the past

The RF window has a hairline battle scar

The Canonet: When I was a kid, I remember seeing a lot of pictures that my mom kept in neatly laid-out pages. I also remembered that our favorite aunt had a small canon rangefinder camera. I have seen her taking pictures with it during reunions and family excursions and I also vividly remember wishing I had one. That was the sixties and seventies and so about a week ago I sent her an SMS message to ask her if the canonet still exist or was it just a figment of my wishful imagination. I asked her slowly if she would let me rescue the orphaned camera and buy it from her. After some negotiation it's now mine...after 3 decades of lusting for it.

krama and me

banana boat@sunset

Puerto Galera 2007

White Beach

Baclayan mountaintop

White Beach: Mother and son shopping

Tenement Housing, Tondo Manila

Signs of the Times

Tondo Manila, 2007

Bahay Kubo Manila

LeicaM4-2 GR 28 mm lens- TriX@ ISO 400
I tried using Parodinal developer at a dilution of 1:25 and it turned out to be very grainy. Master Jay Javier convinced me to do a dilution of 1:100 next time to achieve finer grain qualities.

A Muslim couple waiting for the start of a mass wedding ceremony for both Catholic and non-catholic couples

Tech Notes: This was shot using an expired kodak Tri-X film rated at ISO 400 and processed with Parodinal at a dilution of 1:25. From what I remember in the past, Shooting in situations like this where there is a great difference in light meter readings inside this shaded area and outside where the sun is at it's peak, I used to rate my film at half the ISO rating which is at ISO 200 and then reduce the film developing time by 25 percent which effectively is shooting an overexposed but underdeveloped film to reduce the contrast .
I also re-learned that the Parodinal solution is better with a dilution of 1:100 to reduce film grain. Everybody should have a refresher course in film developing if possible because digital shooting makes you forget thr beauty of film's behavior.

Divisoria Market

Street Gangs of Tondo

"TRIBU" excerpt from the filming of the "Indie" movie

Pitikbulag at PinoyCentric

Luis And AKira Interviews at PinoyCentric Portal

Ongpin St. Manila

Zzzzziggy

Ziggy Concert 2007-Philippine Plaza. The performance level of Marley was frustratingly low. Meanwhile, a night-swimmer at the Hotel's pool bask in the light.

Jim Libiran and Egay Navarro enjoys a chat during the ZZZZzzzziggy Marley concert at the Philippine Plaza Hotel.We hanged out at Jim's suitewhile watching.

Street DOCUMENTARIES visits 3Di photo club

What a great evening...Me, Akira, and Gil Nartea visit young and emerging photographers....Great Images...GOOD VIBES...POSITIVE ENERGY (photo lifted from Diana's blog)

Good ol' farming

it's been a very long time since I last saw a real live farmer toiling on his ricefiels and it's a relief to know that they still exist.
n some parts of Cavite south of Manila, the ricefields are fast disappearing.The farmlands are being swallowed up by residential subdivisions.

I was fortunate to have escaped the city even for a week to shoot for a USAID project, If only more people begin to see the importance of our environment... then everywhere we cast our eyes on would be as awesome as this.

3 Farmers on a river raft

Nueva Vuzcaya ricefields and upland corn,2007

Countryside streets

Just to start off a series of peeks into what's happening in the beautiful and awesome countryside.

The Brave,The beautiful,The Women.

In these dimly lit wards, the tiny babies first see the light of their lives

28 mm. GR lens,Leica M4-2,Kodak Tri-X

Zzzzz.

Street monkeys

International women's Day 2007: Recto Ave. Manila

Kangaroo mom

A newborn premature baby being cared for kangaroo-style at a public Maternity hospital in Manila. Babies less than 2000 gms. at birth gets the body heat of their mother 24/7 through this style of caring due to the lack of incubators at the maternity hospital.
On a normal day the hospital churns out about 75-100 lovely babies daily

Happy Land, Tondo

Shot with Leica M4-2 Jupiter-3 lens 50mm f1.5 processed in "Parodinal". Lucky SHD 100 film .

Happy Land, Tondo (digital)

Happy land... I have passed this small parch of land a dozen times already. Located a few hundred meters away from the old Smoky mountain but it was my first time to venture into this community housed in old warehouses converted into tenement styles housing. You can see a lot of kids hounding my camera while the older youth sniff their glue and solvent nonchalantly in small plastic bags.
This is uncharted territoty for me.

Pier 18 Boys

The Fire Pig

Street Kids do the Dragon Dance during festivities in Manila's Chinatown using makeshift materials like an ols blanket and a corrugated box

BOYCOTT ELECTIONS 1983

Children's lives (be patient when loading)

Mighty Isis

M4-2,Summilux35@ f1.4

Reliving the color of people's lives in black and white

It's been roughly 10 years since I have last handled real black and white films and chemicals. With the generosity and inspiration of some friends in the rangefinder forum, at last I have started to relive the glory days of black and white images.
In the past few weeks I have been dragging my ageing body out of bed early in the mornings to run around the area where I live with my rangefinder slung diagonally across my chest and from time to time I chance upon the "morning people" and shoot them with my small and harmless looking camera.
Piece by piece I have been buying all the small things that I need to start developing these first images.
My skill at capturing the images is a bit rusty and out of sync, but now that I am empowered once again.... nothing is impossible.

Tech notes: Shot in Tri-X at 400 ASA and developed in "Parodinal Soup", a rodinal formula made with Paracetamol as main ingredient compliments of RF proponent Jay Javier.

Bondage anyone?

Bondage anyone?

Young Men, SF

SImply amazing (flash test)

Pls. Vote for this image

Patience

Titser's Enemi No.1

TODAY

Self-Portrait 2007 (I had nothing better to do at home)

20 years Ago...

It has been 20 years since The Mendiola Massacre (scroll down way below to see my posting) and I realize that nothing has changed. I am still on the streets shooting and still have the same gear,wrappings and gadgets. It used to be that I don't leave home without my vhf-uhf multiband tranceiver..that strange looking unit with the long "larsen" rubber-duckie. I've had lots of spot news covered because my amateur radio friends sparsely distributed across the metropolis would crackle over the radio with live feeds on events near their whereabouts.Nothing new right?. Today we have the precious mobile phones. In the past we would even hack a radiotelephonep patch system with a radio shack Tandy computer and transmit small pictures or bitmaps to our server at the Agence France Presse Manila Bureau where I was working.I wouldn't leave home without 3 SLR bodies to go on assignments. Two cameras for the office loaded with color negatives and 1 for my own, with ektachromes (I was moonlighting for Gamma-Liaison on the side) We always used fixed lenses and Boy!!! they were really fine pieces of glass. One focal length for a particular kind of shot.I used 20 mm then. Now I lug a 10-20mm instead.

ANyway, I posted this pictures because in a few days The GMA News online will be featuring the works of photographers who covered the massacre ,
More of my ramblings later.
I have to go back to my work. ;-)

Quiapo

The Black Nazarene is brought out of the church

excited devotees

Devotees

A father and his kid waves their hankies at the Black Nazarene

family on a motorbike

New Year Cleanup

I'm cleaning up these trusty old rangefinders because I plan to shoot more images on film in 2007. The Year 2005 was the year of the RF renaissance.

A WIld Night at PCP 9th Anniversary Party

Members of

early birds???

The aftermath of typhoon Durian:Let 's help them

END of Days?

coke it is

stucked

cleaning up

pondering

The ground split up

A calamity of apocalyptic proportion has struck is.

My kids Akira and Isis are confined to quarters....studying on a stormy day

A simple Xmas

Waiting for storm Durian

Bonifacio Day, Quiapo Manila